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Welcome to The Region, global hub for the 140 software architects, developers, trainers and other professionals selected by Microsoft as Regional Directors. The first thing to know is that, while we’re officially recognized by Microsoft and often receive inside information about forthcoming technologies, we are completely independent. We are not Microsoft employees. As to The Region, it’s designed to help us circulate insights, information, inspiration and inquiries among RD’s and among the broader developer community. And it's an experiment. We hope you find it useful. We hope we find it useful, too.


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Vishwas Lele is an AIS Chief Technology Officer and is responsible for the company vision and execution of creating business solutions using .NET technologies. Vishwas brings close to 20 years of experience and thought leadership to his position, and has been at AIS for 13 years. A noted industry speaker and author, Vishwas is the Microsoft Regional Director for the Washington, D.C. area and a member of the Connected Systems Division Advisors group. Additionally, Vishwas has received an MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for Solution Architecture award for both 2006 and 2007. Prior to joining AIS, Vishwas worked for Tata Unisys and Microstrategy. Vishwas received his Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering from Nagpur University in India and his Masters degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.

TechTalk

4 Examples of Higher Order Software Development

Vishwas Lele writes "...empowering the business users to build their own software may be the only real way to scale and enable the business to adapt/react quickly to external market forces...four concrete examples of applications to which we have applied this paradigm...Excel Services based solution...incident reporting and management...we built the software tools that allowed the business-users to create the program they need. This approach has a number of benefits..." Read post »

TechTalk

Secret to Cloud Computing as a Moneymaker - 2010 Predictions

Vishwas Lele writes "...Leading System Integrators could see up to 10% of their revenue coming from cloud based services, by the end of 2010...bring the benefits of the cloud to the SMB space...In the past year, there were a staggering number of changes to the Windows Azure Platform...expect this trend to..." Read post »

Editors Picks

Questions Around Azure Deserve Clarifying

Vishwas Lele writes "...some broad-brush statements questioning Azure’s pricing, performance and applicability that I have come across lately, deserve some clarifications....I have attempted to capture some of these concerns and provide my humble thoughts on why we need a take a holistic approach when evaluating the Windows Azure Platform...The Azure team has heard the above feedback...And for the rest of us..." Read post »
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Technical Expertise ASP .NET, BizTalk Server, Building Distributed Applications with .NET, SharePoint Products and Technologies, XML Web Services
Years of Experience 18
Certifications MCAD, MCP, METRO-C, METRO-T
Awards MVP solutions architecture
Vertical Industries Served Accounting and Financial, Analytics and Reporting, Project Management, Engineering applications